My point is that females are just different than males. Just what is so wrong with *most* women not liking the same things as men? Trying to figure out *why* this is the case is irrelevant, and so far it's leading to a whole slew of stupid assumptions in this thread, since it's fairly obvious that it won't change a whole lot in the near future.
The fairly general argument in this discussion has been that "women think emotionally and men think logically". This argument can also be reversed to say that (most) men are emotionally impaired. In their childhood, girls are allowed to show their feelings openly while a boy who shows his emotions is thought to be weak and "girlish". Most boys learn before long that if they want to be popular, they'd better play by the rules of the majority or they will be alienated in school. Maybe some of these (alienated) children become geeks at a later time. Many geeks have told to be unpopular at school, but assuming this as a sole reason for geekhood is oversimplification.
Yeah, I was an emotional male child, I had my difficulties in school, but I've pretty much came over it. And I'm proud I've not become autistic in the process, despite the peer pressure. I was also laughed at because I spent all my free time with computers. Nowadays I'm working as a UNIX sysadmin in a big multi-national company and I probably get twice as much salary as those who laughed at me. The one who laughs last laughs best, they say:) But I don't really really believe that being emotional and logical at the same time would be impossible or even difficult for the same person. Actually that's the biggest and most ubiquitously accepted lie I've ever heard. You can be purely a technical person, but that doesn't help you in your private life. Or if you think your VCR's remote control is technical enough not to be worth learning, that can be quite restrictive nowadays, too.
If you have tried pre-1.0 series, or even the first 1.0-release, you should know what I'm talking about. October Gnome is a really usable and working desktop environment, and the same can't be said about some of the earlier releases. Also the technical side of the next Gnome release is really interesting. A year ago many people just said that Gnome would never be finished or that it would always be second to some other desktop environment, but the Gnome team has proved that wrong.
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The fairly general argument in this discussion has been that "women think emotionally and men think logically". This argument can also be reversed to say that (most) men are emotionally impaired. In their childhood, girls are allowed to show their feelings openly while a boy who shows his emotions is thought to be weak and "girlish". Most boys learn before long that if they want to be popular, they'd better play by the rules of the majority or they will be alienated in school. Maybe some of these (alienated) children become geeks at a later time. Many geeks have told to be unpopular at school, but assuming this as a sole reason for geekhood is oversimplification.
Yeah, I was an emotional male child, I had my difficulties in school, but I've pretty much came over it. And I'm proud I've not become autistic in the process, despite the peer pressure. I was also laughed at because I spent all my free time with computers. Nowadays I'm working as a UNIX sysadmin in a big multi-national company and I probably get twice as much salary as those who laughed at me. The one who laughs last laughs best, they say:) But I don't really really believe that being emotional and logical at the same time would be impossible or even difficult for the same person. Actually that's the biggest and most ubiquitously accepted lie I've ever heard. You can be purely a technical person, but that doesn't help you in your private life. Or if you think your VCR's remote control is technical enough not to be worth learning, that can be quite restrictive nowadays, too.
--misty@sgic.fi
If you have tried pre-1.0 series, or even the first 1.0-release, you should know what I'm talking about. October Gnome is a really usable and working desktop environment, and the same can't be said about some of the earlier releases. Also the technical side of the next Gnome release is really interesting. A year ago many people just said that Gnome would never be finished or that it would always be second to some other desktop environment, but the Gnome team has proved that wrong.